Raging mob bays for Mubarak’s head

Demonstrators and police clash in Cairo as officers fire rubber bullets and tear gas while youths attack party HQ and ministries

Egypt has been pitched into violence and uncertainty in the demontrations (Asmaa Waguih)

The young man was distraught. Ahmed Yassin thought he had proved his mettle by
protesting against the government he works for even though he knew it would
endanger his job. Then he found himself carrying a dying woman to an
ambulance.

“It was a peaceful demonstration,” said Yassin, 28, who works in the oil
ministry and felt strongly enough to defy his ministry’s ban on joining the
protests. “The police started shooting tear gas. There was a young woman.
She fell and I was helping her up, trying to carry her, when a tear gas
canister hit her in the head,” he added, still shocked. “Her brain came
out.”

Yassin, dressed in the black designer jeans and sports jacket of Egypt’s
middle class, said he and others hauled her to an ambulance. The medics said
she was severely injured, but Yassin knew she had died in his arms.